A 20-year-old Indiana man who spent 75 days in jail after pleading guilty to misdemeanor criminal sexual conduct for having consensual sex with a 14-year-old Michigan girl who lied about her age is scheduled to be resentenced.
Hungary said Monday its shutdown of the border with Croatia had put a stop to the influx of migrants and refugees. Only 41 people crossed into the EU member state on Sunday, the government said. “The border closure is working, it has effectively stopped illegal border-crossing,” government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs told reporters in Nagykanizsa, close to the Croatian border. “The Hungarian government is determined to keep the measures in place as long as is needed,” he said.
The craven statement was made by Brady Campaign President Daniel Gross to The Hill. In the article, Gross criticized two Democratic presidential candidates, the NRA D- rated Bernie Sanders and F rated Lincoln Chafee, for not sufficiently conforming to the group’s radical gun control agenda. In taking particular issue with Chafee’s debate performance, in which the candidate stated he would try to negotiate with NRA, Gross stated, “[t]his is not a negotiation with the NRA… We don’t negotiate with terrorists.”
At the beginning of this month Comcast added a small wrinkle to its slowly expanding usage cap “trials,” forcing users in these markets to pay a $30 premium if they want to avoid usage caps (300GB, $10 per 50 GB overages). Initially, this option was only available in Florida test markets, but users in our forums indicate that Comcast has now extended the idea into Atlanta.
I tried telling Net Neutrality proponents that this wasn’t going to stop.
There’s a bit of controversy surrounding student elections at a San Francisco middle school after the results were immediately withheld by the principal because they weren’t diverse enough.
Federal officials have a secret list of 11 Obamacare health insurance co-ops they fear are on the verge of failure, but they refuse to disclose them to the public or to Congress, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation has learned.
Nearly a third of the innovative health insurance plans created under the Affordable Care Act will be out of business at the end of 2015, following announcements Friday that plans in Oregon and Colorado are folding.
Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old Texas student arrested last month after bringing a “homemade” clock to school, met Wednesday evening with President Omer Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan, who is accused of war crimes and orchestrating genocide.
So where does the 40 percent figure come from? It is derived from studies that were based on data collected from a survey in 1994, the same year that the Brady Act requirements for background checks came into effect. In fact, the questions concerned purchases dating as far back as 1991, and the Brady Act went into effect in early 1994 — meaning that some, if not many, of the guns were bought in a pre-Brady environment.
Following his appearance on WNIT’s Politically Speaking (along with 95.3 MNC’s Casey Hendrickson) last week, Elkhart County Sheriff Brad Rogers appeared on Fox and Friends on Friday morning, Oct. 16, to explain his position on gun control.
Wayne Simmons, a recurring guest on Fox News who claimed to have 27 years of experience with the CIA, was arrested Thursday after being indicted by a federal grand jury on charges that he lied about his service.
Known Simmons for yrs. Can't comprehend how he could've pulled off such an extravagant, disgusting lie over so many: http://t.co/ZDFDKTkqDs
The family of a Michigan teen fatally shot by a sheriff’s sergeant during a traffic stop filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against Eaton County and the officer who shot 17-year-old Deven Guilford in February.
A Michigan man employed at the Hillsdale Bob Evans plant was fired after refusing to remove a Confederate flag from his truck, the Hillsdale Daily News reports. According to the man, his bosses at the plant forced him to remove it after receiving a single anonymous complaint.
The president of the Olive Garden restaurant chain has apologized to a Kansas City police officer after a restaurant employee asked him to leave because he was armed.
“That’s total amateur hour,” said Marc Maiffret, who has founded two cybersecurity companies. He said permitting remote-access connections directly over the Internet would be the result of someone choosing convenience over security or failing to understand the risks. “Real enterprise-class security, with teams dedicated to these things, would not do this,” he said.
Milford Public school system in Connecticut has canceled the popular Halloween parade for its elementary schools “due to fear of excluding children who can’t or won’t participate in the tradition.”
The New York Times is reporting that Playboy magazine will no longer publish nude photos of women. The change is expected to take place in March of 2016.
The justices on Friday were to consider the appeal in Friedman vs. City of Highland Park. If they refuse to hear the appeal, the announcement could come as early as Tuesday morning. Such a decision would signal that cities have the authority to restrict high-powered weapons.
These continued acts of vandlism [sic] makes it clear that some people in our pluralistic society believe it is acceptable to harrass [sic] and victimize certain communities with whom they disagree.”
she said her life had been “very difficult” since the injury because of “how crowded it is in Manhattan”. “I was at a party recently, and it was difficult to hold my hors d’oeuvre plate,”
David Daleiden of the Center for Medical Progress released a statement calling Planned Parenthood’s new policy into question, labeling the move to ax all payments a “PR stunt” that serves as “an admission of guilt.”
“I’d like to now apologize to the victims and the survivors,” Dzhokhar Tsarnaev said, the first time he has expressed remorse for the bombings. He added: “I am sorry for the lives I have taken and suffering I have caused you and the damage I have done.”
President Obama will announce Wednesday that his administration will no longer threaten prosecution against families of hostages who want to pay ransom, after appearing helpless to stop grisly terrorist beheadings of American captives and facing criticism from their loved ones.
According to an investigation conducted by NPR, the VA only tried to contact 610 veterans over a 20-year period. The form of contact? One letter. The VA claimed missing records and personnel information made it impossible to track down those affected. But an NPR researcher found 1,200 veterans in just a short period of time, making VA senior advisor for benefits Brad Flohr’s claims to the contrary hollow.
Presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida) wrote a letter to the interim director of the James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital in Tampa on Monday about reports that the kitchen areas have a massive infestation of rats and roaches. Rubio’s letter is the lead item on his Senate Web site.
The number of veterans seeking health care and ending up on waiting lists for a month or more is 50 percent higher now than it was a year ago, when a scandal over false records and long wait times wracked the Department of Veterans Affairs, The New York Times reported.
They are all named for Confederate generals. There’s been talk for years about whether this is appropriate, and now in wake of Charleston and the South Carolina Confederate flag, it’s coming up again.
But starting later today, moviegoers can grab a domestic or craft beer, or order a cocktail to drink during their film. The Niles theater is the first traditional cinema house in the region to obtain a liquor license and sell alcohol.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal became the latest Republican to enter the 2016 presidential race, announcing today that he will be making a run for the White House.
“UNLV’s current mascot, Hey Reb!, was created in 1982 by late local artist Mike Miller and was inspired by western trailblazers of the 1800s. It was intended to be reflective of western independence and spirit and has become one of the most beloved mascots in college athletics.The university’s original mascot, Beauregard, was abolished in the 1970s when students approached the university administration and voted to remove the confederate-themed mascot but retain the Rebels name.”
So Obama is denying his statements on ‘you didn’t build that’. We set the record straight here.
Plus, with all of this talk about ‘you didn’t build’ this or that, I thought it was funny that government in Michigan not only didn’t help a young entrepreneur … they shut him down. Just like they shut down thousands of lemonade stands throughout the US.
Government doesn’t help you create a business, it impedes it. And we don’t have business because of government roads and bridges. We have roads and bridges because of business.
